"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Campbell, Lance wrote: >> As I stated in my original email I know I can install the database in a >> subdirectory of /abc/def/pgsql_data. I know that. > You can not install into a mount point. That is your problem. That is > what the lost+found is telling you, that it is a mount point. You *must* > install into a directory on the mount point. Right. If the mount directory isn't root-owned, it *should* be --- your sysadmin erred by making it postgres-owned. The correct configuration is root-owned mount point, root-owned lost+found under it, also postgres-owned data directory under it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate